Save The Date!

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Room 12's kindergarten, winter concert performances will take place on Wednesday, December 12th in the school gym.  
More information to follow at a later date!!!

Important Dates!

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Monday, November 12th:  Music for the morning class.
Library for the afternoon class.  Please return all library books!
The Integrated Arts with Daina Leitold (who is an actor, director and mime) for both the morning and afternoon class.  
Our focus during these classes, will be trees, autumn and the ways that animals use trees.

Tuesday, November 13th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Wednesday, November 14th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
The Integrated Arts for both the morning and afternoon class.

Thursday, November 15th:  Music for the afternoon class.

Friday, November 16th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.
The Integrated Arts for the afternoon class.  
(The morning class will have their last session on Monday of next week).

This Week in Kindergarten!

During Discovery time this week, the boys and girls had to roll out some Play-Doh strips and add the correct amount of hair on each card.

They also created poppies, using red and black buttons.

More creations out of lines and curves.

Adding the correct cubes to the designs on the cards.

The children also used magnetic lines and "Handwriting Without Tears" magna doodles to make letters.  Grande ligne (big line) petite ligne (small line).

This week we made the letter L.

Hard at work, copying and printing L's in our letter booklets.

Making sets of objects that are the same as (pareil que), less than (moins que) and more than (plus que).

Tracing numbers and adding the correct amount of stickers on each finger.

There were many students who were absent all week long in the afternoon kindergarten class.  These are the poppies (les coquelicots) that the rest of the class made.

The morning class' poppies.

And some photos of play time, on Thursday afternoon.  Creating marble runs.

Making roads and tracks for the cars and trains.

So many creative children.

Playing in the sandbox.

Imaginative play in the house area.

Explaining to our friends how to make a paper bird.

Important Dates!

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Monday, November 5th:  Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Tuesday, November 6th:  Phys. Ed. for the afternoon class.
Early dismissal at 2:45 p.m.

Wednesday, November 7th:  Music for the afternoon class.

Thursday, November 8th:  Library for the morning class.  Please return all library books!
Phys. Ed. for the morning class.

Friday, November 9th:  Inservice Day! (No school for the students)

This Week in Kindergarten!

Another busy week in kindergarten!  Working in our colour booklets.

Tracing and printing circles.

Cutting and pasting the jack'o'lanterns (les feux-follets) in order from the smallest to the biggest.

Counting sets of Halloween objects and erasing to see if we had the correct answer.

Showing Mme Godin a number using our fingers.  We are showing the number 6.

Who will be the first to fill their straw with spider rings?

We had a student from Red River Community College in our classroom on Monday and Tuesday.  Some of you may know her as she also works at Assiniboine Children's Centre.  Here the boys and girls are playing "Build a Vampire" game (le vampire).

Practicing new sentence structures.  This little girl is trying to guess which of her classmates has the witch (la sorcière)...Qui a la sorcière?

A Halloween memory game.

These are some of the party games that the children played.  Tossing rings on the witch's hats.

Tossing the black balls in the numbered jack'o'lanterns.

Throwing mice in the cauldron.

Halloween tic-tac-toe.

Halloween bingo.

Le groupe 3.

Le groupe 4.

Le groupe 1.

Le groupe 2.

Vampirina trying the ring toss game.

A little ladybug trying to get the mice in the witch's cauldron.

An angel and a witch trying the mouse game.

A police officer and a caterpillar trying out the tic-tac-toe.

All of the children enjoyed the bingo game.

Le groupe 3.

Le groupe 4.

Le groupe 1.

Le groupe 2.

Who will win?  Leonardo or Elsa?

Rolling the die and counting the correct amount of spiders.

The children waited patiently for their turns.

We all had a great time!!!

We ended off the day watching "Le balai perdu" (The Lost Broom).  It was a five minute video about a little broom who lost his friend the witch.

Knocking on the door and reciting "Toc, toc, toc! Qui est à la porte?"  (Knock, knock, knock! Who is at the door?)

After knocking on door, it flew off and we discovered who was hiding behind it.

A math activity.

We spent Thursday and Friday making poppies (les coquelicots).